A few little words

I am a very big supporter of the ideal a little help goes a long way. Mainly for the fact it's a matter I both practise and have benefited from. In fact without help over the last few years I would have starved at times, money got that bad due to my health. So I always try to give back when I can.

Over the last few weeks people have been put in worse situations than I could ever imagine and only by the grace of god do more not suffer. Yet what has really caught my attention in fundraising and all that goes with it was not the great campaigns etc, but the few words from one actor at a film festival and then the ripple effect it had.

The actors name is Sebastian Stan and it was at the TIFF film festival all the actors had to write the rest of the sentence "  I want to....." Now as expected most actors put something more personally identifiable or even self based. Instead though Sebastian wrote I want to help someone. A very simple sentence that has had such a ripple through social media that nearly $3,000 has been raised in less than a week by his fans for anti human trafficking charity he supports.

It's been amazing to watch I have to admit I have supported both that and the other charity he has put his face to, not to impress anyone but because of the fact he has left an impression on me. A celebrity/actor however you define them, to have such selflessness in a situation of self promotion is a rarity. A fleeting light in a tainted world, and yet there he was. Because of such action others will benefit.

But if you take it down to the grass roots values, if a person in the public eye can do it with such few words, what can anyone do with some well placed thoughts and actions.  Sure we can all give a few pennies here and there where we can, follow the lead or answer the call so to speak. But it's better balanced with actions that match. The need for help is always required in any society, there are always poorer, weaker, older, frailer members in any social situation. Not all of them will ask or even admit they need help, not just for pride reasons, but purely to keep hold of dignity and self respect. It is these people who could benefit the most from action rather than donation. From wheeling in bins to holding a door open, everything counts. Help doesn't have to be a big gesture, but a genuine one. For example I spend my life on crutches, yet I am fiercely independent. The greatest help I appreciate when out isn't people who try to take things from me or imply I need extra help, its the people who say good morning while holding a door open with a smile rather then sending me flying in their rush. Trust me I've experienced it all.  It's the genuine offer that gives me a choice, rather than overwhelming or dominating me. If more people were like that society would be such a nicer place.

So while we live with the very positive ripple from the actions of one person and I will leave you the links if you wish to keep it going, you can also keep the ripple of the words going just by looking at how you act in day to day life, and what more it doesn't cost you a penny, just a few little words.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/iwannahelpsomeone

https://www.generosity.com/fundraising/drive-for-a-cure

Are we going to get to 2018

I have sat and thought about writing this for a while, and finally bit the bullet. Seriously I thought last year was bad with all the notable deaths but this year is heading to make last year look like a picnic.

There are three particular world leaders  with a few of their friends that if they don't wise up get their heads out of their arse's and stop pushing their own egos, will have the entire world at nuclear war before the first day of advent. Seriously it's worse than a load of toddlers arguing, except these bleeding idiots had weaponry that we have just proved man isn't responsible enough to control.

There is nothing great or clever by firing warning shots all over Asia just to see where it lands, nor is grown up to then threaten said person via social media. Come on folks at this rate we would be better off with mickey mouse in charge and a whole lot safer. I'm sorry but I'm done with these people, including my own so called leader. Not one of them has proved their maturity in the matter, in fact even the leaders of the UN aren't faring much better.  These people need to be stopped one way or another and if you can't do it the former legal way, it's time to rewrite the law as  something is clearing wrong when the leaders of multiple countries all have questionable mental health issues.

I keep hearing cries from the masses saying things must change, but little action. What's it going to take to rid us of such tyranny. Russia I can understand, they have been so indoctrinated over the years, that the masses are weaken, even north Korea has reasons to not react. But America ? Come on, you all have the opportunity to stop this happened, what has happened is an opening for the return of neo nazi and kkk. Seriously I despair, then I look close to home at the UK and I just want to cry. We have a leader who is basically the lap dog of whoever shouts the loudest, whilst also shredding the dignity of every elderly, or disabled person in the country, by constant demànds to justify their own existence and need for aid.

Going back to America, purely as at the moment of writing this they are being hit for the second time in as many weeks with a hurricane, they are literally dying in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, because no one will man up and say we need to take drastic action in this situation. The reason being again is down to some mislead ego trip afraid to admit that he was wrong about climate change. Well I've got news to you Mr president, just because you can't face reality doesn't make it fake, and if you even bothered to get you god dam suit wet and actually go into the affected streets you would see what your voting public are facing. I mean what's it going to take for someone to get him to face reality, I bet if one of his hotels or golf courses really got flooded or shredded by this weather, then he may notice. But instead he is too busy upsetting north Korea via twitter.

Yes I am picking on America a bit, but only because I realise I have readers from all over the world and it is the one country we all get the news about. I can honestly say the UK is no better, only difference being our leadership are little more sneaky and it doesn't make the international news so easily. We are up to our little necks in trouble, collapsing healthcare,  failing education system, and now our military seems have its own group of neo nazi fans.

It's a pretty sorry state of affairs when extremist Islam groups take second place in world fear to our own leaders, but that's how much the world has changed since the start of the year. Now I am left wondering what's it going to take to actually  making it to 2018.

What makes you British

The last few months here in Briton have been the stories of nightmares. The fact it's made world news is even more concerning as it makes people fearful of coming here to visit, which compounds the problem. I won't deny we are in the midst of what feels like guerrilla warfare, and you need to keep your wits about you. But for my generation this is nothing new we grew up with the IRA trying to blow us up, and let be honest it's not just a UK problem but a western world issue. Germany France even Belgium  they have all suffered attacks.

The problem is other matters are also unsettling our great nation. Our internal politics are as desperate as another big country I can think of that's making world news . The truth is the world is changing in desperation and without regard for past lessons so easily forgotten. But there is one lesson I am proud to see us Britons don't seem to have forgotten. The same message hidden in the posters from ww2 saying dig for victory, that got the east end through devastating blitz and if you want dredge deeper into our history got us through the industrial revolution the great fire etc.  The ability to dig deep grit our teeth and get on with it. The keep calm and carry on message. In fact the actor John Cleese has written a brilliant article on our levels of annoyance with situations where his brilliant comic genius sums up the country to a t. It is worth a look and is flying round Facebook.

But there is a little fact that is being overlooked in all this. It's not what a brit does that matters at the moment it's the fact that the real definition is being whitewashed. To qualify for the the label has absolutely nothing to do with your skin tone or accent, your gender or even religion. I mean we are nation made up of many cultures before America was discovered, by 1066 we had our fill of invasions and have only allowed one since. Instead we welcome people into the country provided they play by our basic rules.

To call yourself a true brit,

 your major point of debate shouldn't be what religion you are ( the Tudors drive the country into exhaustion over that). No a proper British debate is the correct way of serving tea or how to pronounce the word scone.

A brit is never happy with the weather.. No I don't get this either we an island for goodness sake it's going to variable.

A brit will moan about anything and everything usually quietly. But when all hell truly breaks out they will soon forget these whims and do the seemly impossible. Especially if those in charge seem lacking. When it really turns turtle it's the little people who become our hero's.

And a brit with fight tooth and nail to keep our country ours. Sure we have had to adapt when our great empire wanted to be part of the nation, but wars were fought to keep us in tea so it's a fair deal, besides it gave us decent curries and Chinese takeaways. So we quickly adapted in the same way the Romans gave us plumbing and salt. But we don't like people terrorising us on our home soil. That does annoy us and hurt innocence and suddenly you find us Brits won't just take it. We get our own back and we can get really sneaky.

You see being British isn't a genetic thing it's a mental state of mind. If you can witness what we have, brush the dirt off yourself and get back on with normal life within often as little as hours, then well done you're British. If you can see the humour in a man running away from an attack still carrying his pint then yes you can carry the name .

So next time you question if a person is a card carrying brit don't looking at the quantifiable but instead at the emotional. ..

Flying toys time

So we have made it to May with the western world in as big a political mess as it started the year in, and the leaders throwing tantrums worthy of a nursery play. Whether it be one leader screaming he is being badly treated, yeah right read a few history books mate, or another so over confident in her micromanagement destruction of any one none productime she has called yet another bloody election. The reason is the same, they all think they are untouchable. Well for the moment they might think that, and if you are one of many people suffering by their hand it sure feels like it. But karma has a nasty way of catching up with them.

In my life time Nixon fell in disgrace, the Berlin Wall was smashed down, various eastern European tyrants came very unstuck. It just takes time, and unfortunatelythe pain and suffering that occurs during that time. These leaders may truly believe that history will remember them favourably, but it is them who is delusional. For history remembers the little people, and the leadership is tarred by the quality of life of the little people. If the poor are starving, the elderly freezing and Ill and vunerable  neglected, then that's how the societies success is measured.

So whilst Trump acts like a spoilt brat he is, and May is trying to sweep any weakened humans into society's rubbish bin, history is already making notes to this affect. They won't honour these callous excuses of humanity, but ridicule them. Sure it's painful to live through, but we the little people will succeed without resorting to name calling and  toy throwing like our current leaderships.

Simply put

It's been a hell of a week here in London, and I doubt anyone missed the incident in Westminster. Another delusional extremist felt the need to rob people of their lives to prove a point. I made be sounding blasé here but I feel the need to point out a few of the home truths of us Brits, which is why these acts of terrorism have never and will never work.

Since the arrival of the Romans before the year 1 AD we have only had two successful full invasions, the obvious one of 1066, and an invited one of William of Orange in the 1600'S when we had enough of our own monarch. Now before and after these event we have had multiple attempts of invasion and terrorism from the blatantly aggressive Napoleon and Hitler to our own home bred IRA in the my life time.  In fact we have fought off so many there should be a hall of infamy for the attempts. These failures happen mainly due to the sheer stubbornness of us as a nation, and after a very interesting chat to my American spouse he suggested I share my thoughts here.

You see Britain, the Scandinavian countries and a few of the commonwealth countries seem to react very differently to these attacks, than some of the bigger stronger nations such as mainland Europe and America's. It's not necessarily a better way, but it works for us. It is often referred to as unemotional of the famous stiff upper lip of  us Brits, but it's something more basic than that. We aren't detached from our emotions as much as we are possessive over our own personal space. The reason for this cold well stem back to the middle ages where the feudal system was in place and a man's status was defined by his amount of designated farming land. Being on such a small amount of space our own ownership of land is a major thing to us. We don't take kindly to someone trying to take it or the freedom that comes with it away, so we will do what ever our country needs to stops some outside force from taking this.

Over the years this has become an instinctive behaviour and often is referee to as an island nation mentality. But it's this bloody minded behaviour that kept us going through two world wars and constant IRA attacks in the latter 20th century. We will play dirty to secure our borders, trick our enemies and most of all we stick together regardless of anything but the fact we a born and bred Brits. It was this spirit that got London back in operation not 12 hours later than this last attack.

Sure we get emotional, and there are plenty of tears shed for our fallen innocents and servicemen, but it is done quietly so as not to give the opposition reason to gloat. We will support our wounded, praise the emergency services and honour our hero's. But more importantly we don't forget, we seek out the people behind this and we do demand justice whether it takes hours or years.

Now I am not saying this to gloat, but just point out our differences, which in fact unite us with Europe and America. We may act differently, but we are feeling the same way as your do during your attacks. And your actions of unity are noticed and appreciated, we don't mean to seem cold or offish in our actions, it's just inbred into us that we won't let these idiots get to us. There have been plenty of jokes going round about the fact we just have a cup of tea and carry on, and I know it seems looking in at us, a little callous, but it's not meant that way. It's just our warped humour ridiculing the enemy do they don't have any power over us.

So now I have said all that I wish to honour our fallen policeman, and the other victims by asking people if they wish to, to support our air ambulances, or the just giving pages for the families of those lost. Make a proactive decision rather than let the fear take over and remember to salute our enemy in the age old Churchill salute

What right

I have been reading a bit recently that is not only thought provoking but also brings to light the question that does either the government or religion have the right to question or dictate our sexuality.?

The reason being is this, until recently it was believed our sexuality was defined by our ratio of X and Y chromosome with the occasional hiccup that creates either trans or hermaphrodite. Pretty basic really, but now science has developed and it turns out there is far more complexity to it. You can be born one chromosome preference and have the hormones of the opposite, thus truly creating a gay or homosexual. So it becomes not a question of emotional preference but instead a case of scientific need. By the same research it also means a person can have a shortage of either hormone and thus creates either pan or a sexual and a person with neither dominate hormones becomes either of the last two or bisexual.

This isn't a random theory but now scientifically proven research that is being quietly filtered into society through some of the more academic channels. Unfortunately it's being released a little too quietly in current political light. Hence my want to bring it to the blog. On top of this there is also research coming through about the flexibility of sexual preference in animals in relation to population numbers. The research is noting dependant on animal species there is either an increase of barren animals or none sexually productive unions when the population becomes over populated. Or in basic English some species of animals turn gay to prevent over population.

All this research will take a while to become mainstream, but it's there if you research enough or like me listen to BBC radio 4. The proof is there in black and white that scientifically people can't just change or cure themselves of their sexuality it's installed in their DNA. And all this isn't even touching the fact that there may also be a genetic trait as well that could be passed down family lines. But that is still being studied, although I would put money on that knowing my family tree.

I guess what I am trying to say is that science has caught up with the reality a lot of us have always known. Now it's time to drag the governments and religions of the world kicking and screaming into the world of realism. Sexual orientation is decided the same time as our eye colour, when we are conceived. Not amount of persecution is going to change that. I can understand more the religious hiccups over this as religion often run by a moral code established in a different time, when life had different challenges and needs, but governmental there is no need for such prejudice, it's only down to fear and personal discrimination.

It's time the world accepted a few home truths!
1 it's unreasonable and inhuman to force a person to change their sexual orientation
2 the diversity and increase in non reproductive sexual preference will increase in relation to man's over population of the earth
3 now is the time to be more accepting of any orientation before hetro becomes the minority
4 stop the hate it's only going to hurt you, and may well be you are suppressing you own natural inclination to confirm to an outraged theory.

So to all my multi lettered readership I hope this is a little bit of hope in this troubled time.

For international woman's day look towards Iceland

Long title I know, but I couldn't find the witty short version. Maybe it doesn't need some sound bite either as after yesterday's mass celebration I have found a near Utopia. I say near because no one is perfect, but for sure Iceland has taken the most pro active step in female equality. However may I also state it took a drastic action 40 years ago to get it there.

To go forward let me go backwards a bit with a brief history lesson. In October 1975 the majority of the female population of Iceland went on strike for one day. Not just in the work place but also in the home, for 24 hours women refused to do anything. The country came to a near standstill,schools closed, as did factories, and places like banks the big bosses had to get behind the counters just to keep them open. Sounds a bit extreme,but remember females are 52% give or take, of the population worldwide.

The outcome of those 24 hours in Iceland was they were the first country in the free world to vote in a female president. Now fast forward forty years and it has been declared that in all businesses in Iceland they are obliged to prove pay equality in the work place. When write down it sounds like very little, but if you look at the real figures the lack of equality of pay in the work place is a very blatant yet legally allowed action. It's demoralising, and to be honest down right insulting, to over 50% of the population, yet it's as socially acceptable now as it was 100 + years ago.

Now the actions of Iceland suddenly sound a little more ground breaking. This one island nation has basically put most of the western world to shame not just once but for the last forty years. A small country with a far smaller economy yet higher quality of life has made all of Europe and America look positively  medieval with their pay discrimination.

It's been one of the main protest points through out the world, particularly yesterday when we celebrated women, well that and the unedited pink tax. But one small nation has proved it can be changed, and in the case of Iceland, has been changed. So time for the rest of the world to wake up and smell the coffee. In the meantime, I'm looking at the pros and cons of immigrating for all so many reasons, but the fact I would be seen as an equal is a big pro.